Star Trek Online Art Director And Writer Reveal Starship Heritage Bundle

pays homage to 's proud video game legacy by releasing the Starship Heritage Bundle. Featuring starships from past video games, the Starship Heritage Bundle is available for players on July 25th.

's Starship Heritage Bundle tributes classic video games from the early 2000s, including, and Available for the first time ever in, the Starship Heritage Bundle consists of the USS Premonition from the USS Achilles from, and the USS Typhon and Valkyrie Mk II from. Each starship comes playable with its unique abilities from the previous games.

Star Trek Online: Unparalleled, the new season of the hit MMORPG, returns with Star Trek: The Next Generation's Denise Crosby voicing Captain Sela.

had the pleasure to speak with Art Director Thomas Marrone, as well as novelist and screenwriter James Swallow, who wrote 25 years ago, about the Starship Heritage Bundle, designing starships for, the challenges of writingvideo games, whether Star Trek novels are canon and more.

Check out the launch trailer and full interview below:

Screen Rant: is releasing a bundle that includes some classic ship designs. That's pretty cool. Thomas, what can you tell us about it?

Thomas Marrone: We call it the Heritage Starship Bundle? Because it's, you know, I consider it Star Trek Online's homage to the Star Trek gaming heritage that we have. Gowing up as a kid in the 90s days of Star Trek, there was Star Trek everywhere. There was TNG, DS9, Voyager on the air. There was a Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas, which I never got to go to, sadly. And there were a lot of great Star Trek games that came out during the show. Some people call it the Activision era.

But I even think before the Activision era with Interplay, there were some real gems there too, with the 20th Anniversary, and Starfleet Command, Starfleet Academy, Klingon Academy, all that stuff. Anyway, we get to the Activision era, and we have some really cool games. We've got Star Trek Armada, we've got Star Trek: Invasion. You've got Star